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The events and details of the massacre at Beslan have all but unfolded for the world. Unfortunately, the sins of a cursed political season have yielded little to coverage of the savagery from the mainstream America media outlets, who have addressed the event superficially and reluctantly, if at all. More images of the carnage and sorrow have circulated on Free Republic, it seems than all newspapers and television news combined. Together with in-depth analyses from Bloggers like wretchard at Belmont Club and The Command Post, the horrors of the event have been mostly realized for those concerned, yet detached observers…....

A man carries an injured child who escaped from a seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, sending hostage-takers and their captives fleeing in a scene of chaos amid explosions and gunfire. More than 100 children were wounded in the assault, some running from the building naked and covered in blood. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) An injured schoolgirl who escaped from the seized Russian school holds a cross in her hand in a hospital in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia Friday,...

Russian authorities in Sverdlovsk Oblast recently arrested three heavily armed Chechans who were carrying a security pass giving them access to a nuclear weapons center.Russia's government owned newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported last week that the Chechans carried an AK-47 assault rifle with a silencer, two pistols, eight grenades, 400 grams of plastic explosive, detonators, and remote controlled triggers.The pass gave the three men access to the closed city of Lesnoy, where Russia produces nuclear warheads.Authorities first thought the pass had been forged. But later investigation showed it to be authentic. It was issued to Roman Tasukhanov, whose father served in...